Landscape Architecture - North Dakota State University - Main Campus

Landscape Architecture from North Dakota State University - Main Campus is a Campus Bachelor Landscape degree that prepares you for a Architecture career. Landscape architects provide a wide variety of professional services to individuals, organizations, corporations and government agencies. Landscape architects are involved in all phases of the development of a site, from the initial discussion of ideas through the construction of the project. Their duties require a variety of skills-site planning and design, site engineering, management and supervision. They work with architects, planners and engineers involving all aspects of our environment. Career Opportunities Landscape architects design and develop interpretive parks, arboretums, zoos, golf courses, playgrounds, recreation areas and farmsteads. They also design multifunctional areas for urban renewal projects, college campuses, industrial parks and new towns. Besides designing sites, landscape architects select building sites, prepare cost data, initiate long-range planning, select utility corridors and prepare environmental impact statements. When working on large projects or for large landscape architectural firms, landscape architects often specialize in one phase of the work such as project design or administration contracts. This often requires working with engineers, planners and architects. The Program The Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture offers an accredited five-year course of study leading to a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (B.L.A.). You may elect to receive a pre-professional B.S. in environmental design degree at the end of four years. This degree is useful for those who want to enter graduate programs at other universities. The program is one of approximately 60 professional programs in landscape architecture in the United States and Canada that are accredited by the Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board. The first year of study addresses the understanding of the environment and our impact on nature. This is accomplished through lectures, assigned readings and environment-related projects. At the sophomore level students begin four years of study in landscape architectural design. The design courses involve individual and group projects. Other courses span the remaining four years ranging from the History of Landscape Architecture to Contemporary Issues. It is in the design studios that these courses are applied. Projects in landscape architecture design are often assigned much like a practicing landscape architect would receive them from a client. In the fourth year students become heavily involved with the use of computers in their studies, lectures and construction courses. In design studios, function and aesthetics of a project are carefully studied, along with the social and environmental conditions that limit the design solution. Project sites are inventoried, analyzed and summarized to develop schematic layouts and preliminary sketches. Models, diagrams and perspectives are used to investigate aspects of the design and to test the integration of all systems that are part of it-such as movement of people, building access and service points, site lighting and climatic impact. At the same time, and with equal emphasis, students study the economic, social and psychological impact of their design proposals. View more details on North Dakota State University - Main Campus . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Landscape courses.